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Volume 337(7662);  July 19, 2008
Editor's Choice
Conquering old age
Fiona Godlee
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 0. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a847.
PMCID: PMC2483856
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Editorials
Sexuality and older people
Peggy J Kleinplatz
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 121–122. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a239.
PMCID: PMC2483879
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Improving the safety of peripheral intravenous catheters
Dennis G Maki
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 122–123. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a630.
PMCID: PMC2483880
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Incidence of bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris
Pascal Joly
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 123–124. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a209.
PMCID: PMC2483881
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Cross border health care in Europe
Martin McKee and Paul Belcher
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 124–125. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39398.456493.80.
PMCID: PMC2483867
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The future of primary and community care in England
Chris Ham
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 125–126. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a819.
PMCID: PMC2483876
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News
Roche is suspended from ABPI for “actions likely to bring discredit” on the industry
Roger Dobson
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 131. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a835.
PMCID: PMC2483863
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Prosecution over drug price fixing collapses
Clare Dyer
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 131. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a814.
PMCID: PMC2483904
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Debate on abortion is deferred until autumn
Clare Dyer
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 132–133. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a815.
PMCID: PMC2483864
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Standards for adult sickle cell disease aim to reduce gaps in care
Susan Mayor
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 132. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a771.
PMCID: PMC2483891
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Report calls for better UK coordination to solve devolution problems
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 133. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a832.
PMCID: PMC2483906
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Student rejected by Imperial because of conviction is granted interview at Manchester
Jessie Colquhoun
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 133. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a830.
PMCID: PMC2483875
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Rising age of starting family in Netherlands reflects fall in younger not rise in older mothers
Tony Sheldon
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 134. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a773.
PMCID: PMC2483871
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US paediatricians and cardiologists are criticised for recommending statins for children
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 134–135. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a813.
PMCID: PMC2483893
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European Commission plans free fruit and vegetable scheme in schools
Rory Watson
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 134–135. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a829.
PMCID: PMC2483887
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FDA adds “black box” warning label to fluoroquinolone antibiotics
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 135. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a816.
PMCID: PMC2483892
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In brief
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 136. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a823.
PMCID: PMC2483861
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BMA meeting: Doctors call for Royal Commission on copayments
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 136. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a765.
PMCID: PMC2483890
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News feature: Costly US anticancer drugs pose problems for doctors and patients
Fred Charatan
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 136–137. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a778.
PMCID: PMC2483909
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Consensus emerges on need for US agency similar to NICE
Bob Roehr
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 137. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a817.
PMCID: PMC2483899
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Short Cuts
All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 138–139. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a774.
PMCID: PMC2483851
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Head to Head
Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? Yes.
Richard Cookson
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 140. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a589.
PMCID: PMC2483903
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Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? No
Jennie Popay
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 141. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a594.
PMCID: PMC2483905
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Research
Secular trends in self reported sexual activity and satisfaction in Swedish 70 year olds: cross sectional survey of four populations, 1971-2001
Nils Beckman, Margda Waern, Deborah Gustafson, and Ingmar Skoog
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 151–154. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a279.
PMCID: PMC2483873
Prognosis in patients with recent onset low back pain in Australian primary care: inception cohort study
Nicholas Henschke, Christopher G Maher, Kathryn M Refshauge, Robert D Herbert, Robert G Cumming, Jane Bleasel, John York, Anurina Das, and James H McAuley
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 154–157. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a171.
PMCID: PMC2483884
Routine care of peripheral intravenous catheters versus clinically indicated replacement: randomised controlled trial
Joan Webster, Samantha Clarke, Dana Paterson, Anne Hutton, Stacey van Dyk, Catherine Gale, and Tracey Hopkins
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 157–160. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a339.
PMCID: PMC2483870
Bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris—incidence and mortality in the UK: population based cohort study
S M Langan, L Smeeth, R Hubbard, K M Fleming, C J P Smith, and J West
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 160–163. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a180.
PMCID: PMC2483869
Clinical Review
Management of breast cancer—Part II
Nicholas C Turner and Alison L Jones
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 164–169. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a540.
PMCID: PMC2483889
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Practice
Pregnancy Plus: Inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
Charles B Ferguson, Samina Mahsud-Dornan, and R Neil Patterson
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 170–173. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39566.681458.BE.
PMCID: PMC2483894
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Lesson of the Week: Omeprazole and refractory hypomagnesaemia
N Shabajee, E J Lamb, I Sturgess, and R W Sumathipala
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 173–175. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.738981.BE.
PMCID: PMC2483862
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Analysis
Has the time come to take on time itself?
Colin Farrelly
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 147–148. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a414.
PMCID: PMC2483882
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New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century
Robert N Butler, Richard A Miller, Daniel Perry, Bruce A Carnes, T Franklin Williams, Christine Cassel, Jacob Brody, Marie A Bernard, Linda Partridge, Thomas Kirkwood, George M Martin, and S Jay Olshansky
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 149–150. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a399.
PMCID: PMC2483908
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Letters
Cancer Drugs and Copayments: Why not adopt the blacklist of yore?
L Sam Lewis
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 127. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a807.
PMCID: PMC2483912
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Cancer Drugs and Copayments: Critical issue is rapidity of review of new drugs
Alan Rodger
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 127. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a779.
PMCID: PMC2483853
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Darzi Review: Clinical dashboards and open kimonos
Neil J Hughes
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 127–128. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a787.
PMCID: PMC2483854
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NHS at 60: Doctors’ infantalisation
Alexandra Thomson-Moore
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 128. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a791.
PMCID: PMC2483911
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Media and Health Service: How the government is failing the health service
Richard A D O’Brien
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 128. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a784.
PMCID: PMC2483900
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Key Opinion Leaders: Thus are our medical meetings managed
Adriane Fugh-Berman
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 128–129. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a789.
PMCID: PMC2483888
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Key Opinion Leaders: Getting them while they’re young
Carl J Reynolds, Tom Yates, and Robert Hughes
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 129. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a792.
PMCID: PMC2483855
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Key Opinion Leaders: How it really works
Bernard J Carroll
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 129. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a788.
PMCID: PMC2483898
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Key Opinion Leaders: How to spot one
Alexander S D Spiers
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 129–130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a790.
PMCID: PMC2483857
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Key Opinion Leaders: High tech gadgetry introduced by stealth
Su Sethi and Claire O’Donnell
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a782.
PMCID: PMC2483914
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A Friend in Need: General practitioners must have their own list
Alexander Michael Hall-Smith
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a797.
PMCID: PMC2483896
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A Friend in Need: Caring still lives
David R Warriner
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a798.
PMCID: PMC2483883
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Manners in Medicine: What’s in a name?
Anke Medrington
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a687.
PMCID: PMC2483886
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Antipsychotics for Dementia: Antipsychotics for dementia is metaphor for elderly care
Paddy Quail
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 130. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a796.
PMCID: PMC2483878
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Obituaries
Qiu Fazu
Annette Tuffs
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 180. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a812.
PMCID: PMC2483852
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Joseph Michel Gaston Assing
Hedwig Assing
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a767.
PMCID: PMC2483858
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Reginald Frederick Bolam
Susan Bolam
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a668.
PMCID: PMC2483859
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Peter John Lennox Holt
Ruth Holt, Tom Warnes, and Robert Bernstein
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a751.
PMCID: PMC2483872
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Derek Conrad James
Matt James and Bob Graham
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a768.
PMCID: PMC2483860
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Margery Lila Moncrieff (née Allen)
Clare Markham
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a750.
PMCID: PMC2483885
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Harold Holmwood Reynard
P W Wenham
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a689.
PMCID: PMC2483913
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Maxwell Stanley Sewell
Helen Sewell
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 181. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a758.
PMCID: PMC2483910
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Feature
Public Health: New York’s road to health
Karen McColl
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 142–144. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a673.
PMCID: PMC2483865
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Observations
Body Politic: A discriminating judgment
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 145. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a809.
PMCID: PMC2483866
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Minerva
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 182. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a783.
PMCID: PMC2483915
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Victoria H Smith and Stephen K Jones
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 182. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a793.
PMCID: PMC2483877
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Views & Reviews
Personal View: The great NHS communication breakdown
Peter Davies
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 176. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a664.
PMCID: PMC2483916
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Review of the Week: The secret of HIV control can be found in the back streets
Joanna Busza
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 177. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a800.
PMCID: PMC2483902
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From the Frontline: Spam medicine
Des Spence
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 178. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a810.
PMCID: PMC2483868
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Outside the Box: Anyone for Club Med?
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 178. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a677.
PMCID: PMC2483874
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Between the Lines: The benefits of gout
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 179. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a781.
PMCID: PMC2483907
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Medical Classics: Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia
Aidan O’Donnell
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 179. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a794.
PMCID: PMC2483897
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Fillers
Drips, drains, and dressings
Anthony Craighill
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 163. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a98.
PMCID: PMC2483901
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When I would use a new word: Abformation
Jonathan O’B Hourihane
BMJ. 2008 July 19; 337(7662): 169. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.374259.AD.
PMCID: PMC2483895
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